The premiere of an alumnus’s film about a seminal year at Harvard and beyond

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Click on arrow at right to see full image gallery(1 of 4) Adams House, encompassing buildings ranging from Colonial America to Harvard’s Depression-era creation of the House system (and trisected by city streets), poses design and construction challenges as renewal nears.

This year's Ivy League basketball tournaments will be played this weekend at Yale's John J. Lee Amphitheater, which seats 2,800 and was the site of a thrilling playoff game between the Harvard and Princeton men in 2011.Photograph by David Silverman/Yale Athletics

First, it indicates the rapid pace at which Bacow is staffing his senior leadership team; the appointment of Claudine Gay as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences was announced shortly after he became president on July 1, and filled the senior academic vacancy. No significant departures among the top tier of administrators (from the provost and executive vice president through the vice presidents) have been announced, indicating that the president intends to keep President Drew Faust’s team intact, enabling him to proceed quickly on effecting his agenda for the University.

Whatever agenda he outlines in his inaugural address on October 5 and in the months to come, Bacow has indicated his eagerness to pursue it rapidly. Now he has brought back to Cambridge a fundraising colleague with whom he has an established rapport—along with established credentials in development for a multi-school research university, at the highest level.